Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: init uninitialized output buf for btrfs-restore

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On 8/21/14, 1:42 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 8/20/14, 10:35 PM, Gui Hecheng wrote:
>> A memory problem reported by valgrind as follows:
>> 	=== Syscall param pwrite64(buf) points to uninitialised byte(s)
>> When running:
>> 	# valgrind --leak-check=yes btrfs restore /dev/sda9 /mnt/backup
>>
>> Because the output buf size is alloced with malloc, but the length of
>> output data is shorter than the sizeof(buf), so valgrind report
>> uninitialised byte(s).
>> We could use calloc to repalce malloc and clear this WARNING away.
> 
> It clears the valgrind error away, but does it hide a real bug?

Maybe the relevant question for Marc is - did you get decompression
errors during restore?  if so then I guess it all makes sense, and
the proposed patch seems sane after all, sorry.

-Eric

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